12/21 I'm thinking about installing an alarm system at my home. The
telephone wiring box at my house is at a very visible position facing
the street. If someone cuts the telephone wire to my house before
breaking in, what good is the alarm system now that it can't call the
police station or the moniter center? Thx.
\_ Not sure, I'd have to take a look to check out the situation. Where
do you live again?
\_ There is no point to a monitored service. Response times are
too slow to be of any use. --dim
\_ I disagree. A monitored alarm is a nice complement to a safe.
Ideally the safe should be on a separate zone from the rest of
the house, but even if it's not, a slow response time is still
fast enough to prevent a burglar from getting into your safe.
Perhaps you don't need a safe, but I do.
\_ Why not get a safe deposit box at that point? If I'm
a thief I take the safe and open it later. But I'm sure
your safe is actually a vault... --dim
\_ You're not going to take a safe with you before the
company monitoring the alarm gets there, especially if
it's properly installed (bolted to the foundation with no
side or rear access without going through a wall).
Even without proper installation, it'll take a thief
some time to maneuver a couple thousand pounds of steel
out of the house. A safety deposit box is suitable for
a subset of my needs; the safe is suitable for others.
\_ Wouldn't the cut phone lines signal the alarm company?
\_ Yes. We have an alarm and that's how it works. I have no idea
why some people think response time is "too slow". Too slow for
what? The last time my alarm went off 3 cop cars were here in
under 5 minutes while my alarm was deafeningly loud. I don't
care if someone does a smash n grab. The alarm is for personal
safety and to deter some Night Stalker type person from hanging
out for a few days torturing us while no one outside knows.
Some random thug *might* get away with my TV. He won't have
enough time to hang out doing anything else.

12/21 Ann Coulter: Attack France! (It's at least worth reading
before you delete)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/fr/593954/posts
\_ Is this supposed to be funny?
\_yep. Not only supposed to be, but is.
\_ Nope. Not funny. It is like a bad Saturday Night Live
skit that never ends. Not one laugh in it.
\_ How on earth does this woman stay syndicated?
\_ because some people aren't dumb humorless liberals.
\_ They are stupid shit-kicking half literate rednecks?
\_ ... although I think Ann missed one very important point,
France bought Iraq's war debt from Kuwait.
- original poster

12/21 From Jon Carroll:
"SOME HAVE SAID that this is wartime and that people should watch what
they say in wartime. But, you know, this isn't wartime. Wartime is when
civilians are drafted to answer their country's call, and stay-at-home
spouses move into jobs in shipyards and steel factories, and we are
called upon to save aluminum and tin and purchase blackout drapes.
Now we are being called upon to purchase consumer electronics and
airline tickets. We are told that we defeat terrorism by acting
normally. All we are called upon to sacrifice is our right to think
freely and to express our opinions openly. And if we fail in our duty
-- well, there are always the talk radio blowhards and the spontaneous
mobs to remind us what good citizenship means."
\_ the soda Free Republic Guy (tm) must be at home visiting
his family. happy holidays. - danh
\_ So JC thinks the Revolution wasn't war time? 1812 wasn't? French-
Canadian wasn't? The army going west to wipe out the natives
wasn't? Taking the southwest from Mexico wasn't? Korea wasn't?
Vietnam wasn't? JC is an idiot. Not every war will be a clone of
WWII. For lack of anything better to do I read this idiot every
day on BART. His idiocy makes me laugh. He should stick to
stories about his kids and being a dad and give up the attempt at
political genius. He's less coherent than the typical motd poster.
\_ the soda Free Republic Guy (tm) must be at home visiting
his family. happy holidays. - danh
\_ last time i checked, it wasn't wartime because
ONLY CONGRESS CAN DECLARE WAR. and as much as ted turner thinks
he can declare war, well, de jure, it is a right reserved only to
the legislative branch.
\_ haven't you heard? Rupert Murdoch can declare war. Apparently
so can George Soros. de facto is what counts.
\_ You're right. All those other wars where we drafted people and
they died on foreign lands from foreign bullets weren't wars.
They were just police actions. Wake up.

12/22 Looking to set up an anonymizing webbrowser. I want to set it up
on workmachine X so that when i browse from home I look like i'm
browsing from X. Squid support this?
\_ yes, provided you have access to the copy of squid running
at work from your house.
\_ Uh... turn off logging or you're not really anonymous on squid,
just delaying the feds by one step while they look for your kiddie
pics. And someone is going to ask who setup squid in the first
place and has access to it.
\_ Is it illegal to browse certain websites if I am > 18 yrs. old?
\_ If you're surfing from the U.S. it can be. Try surfing all
the kiddie porn sites and then take your computer in for a
repair and see what the FBI says about it. I know the typical
soda user doesn't do this, but non-geeks have done this and
been busted.
\_ Geez, I thought only in China one can get in trouble this
this way.... But will the fed trace log the ip number
and trace to the ISP and then bust the user directly?
\_ Geez, I thought only in China one could get in trouble
this way.... But will the fed trace log the ip
number and trace to the ISP and then bust the user
directly?
this way.... But does the fed log the ip then trace
to the ISP and bust the user directly?
\_ 1) I'm not a Fed, 2) Your own computer is the evidence,
3) You can skip the "I hate Amerikkka" trolling, 4) you
really think it's ok to peddle kiddie porn?
\_ 1) Is kiddie porn the only thing that is illegal
to surf? 2) What does this have to do with "hating
America" or a troll 3) Should everything that is
not "ok" or wrong to me be outlawed and persecuted
by the government?
\_ 1) bestiality, too
\_ what about depictions of it in newsgroups
and movies (Leolo?)

12/22 Anyone successfully run terminal services client from within
wmware ran on freebsd or linux?
\_ No, but there's no reason it shouldn't. IIRC it uses a port in
the 24xx range and maybe a low port and is otherwise nothing
special. If you can surf or whatever from vmware, TS should work.
Disable firewalls during testing/setup of course.
\_ Not related, but I've found vmware on FreeBSD with win2k to
be horribly slow; I only gave it 128mb of memory, but it's still
far pokier than I'd expect on a "real" system with 128MB. -John

12/22 DailyCal is running on IIS/ASP?!! God saves us!
>http://www.dailycal.org/article.asp?id=7323
\_ This is just another option to become a writer. Upload your own
stories or modify the ones already there to suit your taste.